AG171

Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis! File:PokémonRangerDeoxysCrisis.jpg

AG171   ポケモンレンジャー！デオキシス・クライシス!! Pokémon Ranger! Deoxys Crisis!!

First broadcast Japan April 13, 2006 United States October 28, 2006

English themes Opening Battle Frontier

Japanese themes Opening スパート！ Ending GLORY DAY 〜輝くその日〜 ③

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard 大山和弘 Kazuhiro Ōyama 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant directors 大山和弘 Kazuhiro Ōyama 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane

Screenshots on Filb.de The Animation was originally only credited to Izumi Shimura and Toshihito Hirooka

Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis! (Japanese: ポケモンレンジャー！デオキシス・クライシス!! Pokémon Ranger! Deoxys Crisis!!) is episode 171 of Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation. It first aired in Japan on April 13, 2006 and in the United States, first as an hour-long special on October 28, 2006.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with their Pokémon Ranger friend Solana.
• They find the Legendary Pokémon Deoxys.
• Ash's Swellow battles the Deoxys.

Debuts

• DeoxysDeoxys Evolution

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Solana
• Giovanni (Team Rocket fantasy)
• Pokémon Center employee (female)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Plusle (Solana's)
• Deoxys (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Miltank (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)
• Swablu (many)
• Altaria (many) (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara)
• Nuzleaf
• Seedot
• Azurill
• Zigzagoon
• Pidgeot
• Shroomish

Trivia

• In some areas of Japan, this episode was broadcast in two parts instead of as a one-hour special; the opening changes in AG172 debut in this episode instead. The English dub also originally broadcast as a special.
• This episode is directed by 須藤典彦 Norihiko Sudō, who replaces 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka.
• This episode was aired as a special to coincide with the release of Pokémon Ranger for the Nintendo DS. Sceptile's evolution had only happened in an episode that aired that morning.
• This episode marks the third time that a Pokémon speaks through Meowth. The first time was by a giant Tentacruel in Tentacool and Tentacruel and the second was with Haunter and Gastly in A Shipful of Shivers.
• Altough most if not all genderless Pokémon are referred to as male in the Latin American dub, the episode calls Deoxys a female Pokémon, with the use of "ella" by all characters.

Errors

May commanded Combusken to use Flamethrower instead of Fire Spin.

In other languages

• French: Le Visiteur de l'Espace
• Latin American Spanish: La crisis de Deoxys

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.